Rebecca Phillip, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Albany, NYNPI 1982066197
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,838 of the $9,648 with a category attached, or 60.5%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 52.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,951 and has fallen 87.0% since, to $775 in 2025.
Across 106 payments — averaging $91.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$430
- Artivion, Inc.$168
- LSI Solutions Inc$100
- plus $184 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,83861%
- Food & beverage$3,28034%
- Education$4304%
- Gifts$1001%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 66 | $5,107 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 22 | $2,275 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $1,384 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $430 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $168 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $100 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $91 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $50 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $17 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$9,648 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 18 | $103 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Albany
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Gilbert TangNew York$842K
- Michael ZervosNew York$811K
- Israel JacobowitzBrooklyn$529K
- Elias ZiasNew York$465K
- Arthur MartellaRochester$431K
- Isaac GeorgeNew York$395K
- Eugene GrossiNew York$350K
- John GoncalvesMineola$332K
- Costas BizekisNew York$321K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.